# CRIT (Optica Rare Earths & Critical Materials ETF)

Optica · Thematic ETFs · data as of Mar 18, 2025

Not updated since Mar 18, 2025. Its price has not moved since. These are its last figures. It is not in ETFIQ’s rankings, scores or comparisons while they are out of date.

CRIT has no holdings report (Form N-PORT) public on EDGAR yet, so there is nothing to look through.

## Key facts

- CRIT, total return, 1 year: −9.3%, as of Mar 18, 2025.
- CRIT, expense ratio: 0.85% (485BPOS XBRL, Mar 26, 2024).

## CRIT over each window to Mar 18, 2025

| Window | Total return | S&P 500 (SPY) | Gap to SPY | Gap to QQQ |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 3 months | −3.2% | −6.8% | +3.6 pts | +8.1 pts |
| 6 months | −3.8% | +0.3% | −4.0 pts | −4.3 pts |
| 1 year | −9.3% | +10.4% | −19.8 pts | −18.3 pts |
| Since launch | −31.4% | +26.6% | −58.0 pts | −61.7 pts |

## Every published field

| Field | Value | Source |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Theme | Rare earth and critical materials | ETFIQ, editorial |
| First traded | Mar 29, 2022 | ETFIQ |
| Below its all-time high | −33.8% | ETFIQ |
| Expense ratio | 0.85% | 485BPOS XBRL, Mar 26, 2024 |

## Questions

### Has CRIT beaten the S&P 500?

Over the year to Mar 18, 2025 CRIT returned −9.3% with distributions reinvested, against +10.4% for the S&P 500, so it finished behind the index by 19.8 points.

### What does CRIT cost?

The prospectus expense ratio is 0.85% a year.


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